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No, no, the movies are part of the anime world which is different of the manga world, even if the two are linked,
Kubo himself said it in the volume 32 of the manga.

All the movie can be placed into the anime chronology (as all the Filler arc)regarding the season where they happen, so they are all canon in the anime.

The first movie take place just after the bount arc. (It's the beginning of the automn), and the bount arc finish in the middle of september.

The 2nd, the 3rd movies and the amagai arc take place in winter, so they take place after the allankar arc (which happen in october in the manga and around 2 week later in the anime)

the zanpakuto arc take place in spring after all the arc (sakura blossom, all the character are talk about the event of allankar are, Hinamori don't call Aizen "captain" anymore and Kazeshini and Shuuhei are not ennemy anymore at the end).

So everything in the movie or original arc can be canon in the anime.

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Kraken is a liar. A bad one at that. That or they are incredibly assuming and mad.

I am not a liar, It's not the first time than anime and manga are really different even if some arc are the same.

It was the same thing in saint seiya and Saint seiya is the favorite manga of Tite kubo and the model he use for bleach (he said it into the interview).

The anime of saint seiya had some filler who really change the story
In the manga, all the character are brother, in the anime, no.
In the anime, all the character are older than in the manga.
The design of the character are really different (change of hair and eyes color for all the character, different outfit for all of them)
Some character have different master, different objective.
some antagonist dies differently that from the manga
there is a filler arc far superior than the main story (as bleach and the muramasa arc)
there is a love story between the 2 main character (which was absent in the manga), they even made a side story and 2 movies about this love story.

I think the anime bleach is also very similar to the anime saint seiya. He share some point with the manga, but is also very different.

And if they doing this with the anime bleach, it's because Tite Kubo said he didn't planning to put Ichigo into love story.

So adding a love story to the character don't risk to change the issue of the romance of the manga (there is no romance in the manga, so...)